Hi, i hope i am in the right place, sorry if not.
I want to root my One X on stock ROM. I currently have 4.1.1, CID HTC_001.
Is it possible to get it rooted while keeping certain things? These things are:
Being able to receive OTA
Keeping all files when rooting
Easy to revert back if i am not able to receive OTA.
Help will be very much appreciated thanks
If you unlock the bootloader with htcdev.com and flash a cwm custom recovery you can make a nandroid backup of the current non rooted rom and keep it in a safe place. You can restore that backup anytime if you want to go back stock.
After that you are able to flash custom roms or just root the one you are running currently ......
You might void some warranty with blocking the bootloader !!!
Tip : ALWAYS DO A NANDROID BACKUP FROM THE STOCK ROM !!!
Thank you
Mr Hofs said:
If you unlock the bootloader with htcdev.com and flash a cwm custom recovery you can make a nandroid backup of the current non rooted rom and keep it in a safe place. You can restore that backup anytime if you want to go back stock.
After that you are able to flash custom roms or just root the one you are running currently ......
You might void some warranty with blocking the bootloader !!!
Tip : ALWAYS DO A NANDROID BACKUP FROM THE STOCK ROM !!!
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Thanks a lot. Just what i was looking for. I will certainly be doing this at some point. Shame you can't just root it but at least you are able to back it all up safely.
When following any guides
Don't flash the recovery. Just use fastboot boot recovery.img
Instead of fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
This way will leave the stock recovery on your device which is needed to apply any otaupdates
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
Yes with the taken nandroid you can go back anytime....the only thing you have to remember is that when you took a nandroid backup the recovery of that backup is not stock, so after the restore you have to flash back the stock recovery before you can apply a official HTC update. But you can find that easily.....i have them also :thumbup:
That's great. OTA was something i really wanted, thanks. 4.2 is coming very soon and a possibility of 5. Just one more thing. Do you lose items on the virtual SD or does this not affect them at all?
Well do a full backup of the sd before you unlock the bootloader, it's sets the phone to its factory state and some say it wiped the sd but others say it didn't so that's a grey area for me !
Its probably the safest option, i will do that. Is using the stock recovery just as easy as using the custom recovery too? I read stock recovery and this insecure boot thing and it has a chance of bricking. Also i know a lot of articles are with 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 and 4.1 are different. I think 4.1 is the same as 4.0.4 though.
Well to be honest i'm not a big fan of rooting the stock rom ! I always flash a custom already rooted rom to have benefits of all the hard work that developers has.put into a rom. In my opinion a custom rom is always better than a stock rooted rom. So i don't much about the insecure root things !
What i do is : flash the custom recovery and backup the stock rom (keep that in a vault ) and flash a custom rom to play with !
Stock recovery has no use at all for me, i only need it when i want to update the phone with official HTC releases .....like they did to update to JB
ow and yes rooting and flashing on JB 4.1 are the same as on ICS 4.04 :thumbup:
Is it easy enough to go back to the stock recovery though if you have used the Clockwork one?
Yes it will take 3 fastboot commands while the phone is in fastboot USB menu
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
Fastboot erase cache
And the stock recovery is restored !
That's all !
Ofcourse the nandroid has to be restored before that.....you copy the nandroid backup to the phone and flash the boot.img from that nandroid (its inside the nandroid folder) after that you do a full wipe in the custom recovery and restore the nandroid, then you boot it up to see if it runs and after that you flash the stock kernel ! Easy and simple.......and you don't have to re-lock and unlock the bootloader anymore, it can stay unlocked the whole process
That doesn't sound too bad... Thank you very much for the help, i will certainly be having a go. Sorry for some of the stupid questions, i am quite new to all this. Bricking is the only worry for me, if i can avoid that, i'm happy . Thanks again.
No problem mate ! I was already helping somebody else tonight.....multitasking it is !
Hahaha. Well i won't be starting until i can get my hands on another laptop as my current is in a poor state. Damaged hard drive. can run very slow at times. I tried transferring SD to memory stick. But it was running at a painful speed so i stopped it Tomorrow i should be able to get another one to backup my things onto.
Is there or ever will be a way to flash back to stock safely witgout the possibility of softbrick device or having to do a hard factory reset just to get the phone to boot up successfully? I'm comming from xperia play and for xperia devices its so simple via flashtool or for my friend who had a SGS2 who wanted me to flash a custom rom on his phone and that's how I discovered ODIN. Basically what I'm trying to ask is will there or is there already a standard easy tool or something that will allow us to flash back to stock easy as 123?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010624
.KDZ method worked as easy as....well....like you say 123. There is another method using factory .tot images, which I have no tried.
Unlock bootloader -> custom recovery -> nand backup.
In case of emergency, loading into the recovery, restore nand backup.
Stuck on custom status and superSu doesn't work
Tried flashing superSu tried flashing a deodexed roms I found on here tried doing a factory reset hoping to maybe get back unroot status even tried framaroot again.
Can anyone tell me how to either get root again so I can add a custom recovery since my goal is too install the 4.2.2 update or get back to unrooted factory status?
Thanks in advance
roguedroid said:
Stuck on custom status and superSu doesn't work
Tried flashing superSu tried flashing a deodexed roms I found on here tried doing a factory reset hoping to maybe get back unroot status even tried framaroot again.
Can anyone tell me how to either get root again so I can add a custom recovery since my goal is too install the 4.2.2 update or get back to unrooted factory status?
Thanks in advance
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You shouldn't need root to add a custom recovery. You can flash a recovery in download mode using Odin on Windows, or Heimdall on Windows/Mac/Linux. If you're interested I can give you some help with installing and using Heimdall.
Bear in mind that flashing files in download mode will void your warranty (there is a counter which tracks how many times you've flashed). Flashing also carries a risk of bricking your device permanently. Once the flash counter is nonzero, your device will be detected as "custom" and you still won't be able to install official updates. But you will be able to flash ROMs in recovery from the xda community.
Hi ! I just unlocked bootloader of my phone (Micromax Canvas A1 with Android One) yesterday, flashed a Custom CWM Recovery and Rooted it. But now, I want to get back my warranty by unrooting it. I think the following steps will work in getting back my warranty:
1) Unroot Android
2) Flash stock recovery
3) Relock bootloader
I can unroot and relock the bootloader on myself. But I don't have stock recovery image for my phone. Can anyone here provide me the Stock Recovery image file for this phone?
Moreover, I have one more Canvas A1 handset which is completely in factory mood (and so under warranty unlike my rooted Android one phone ). Is there any way to create a flashable rocovery image file from this phone?
Anyways, I will be very happy and thankful if only anyone could provide me the Stock Recovery Image file for this phone .
Thanks in advance !
Here's the stock recovery link which I had uploaded: http://www.mediafire.com/?cr10jbo9f6gnh32 (rename it to recovery.img)
You'll need to flash it from ADB mode (you need unlocked boot loader in this case) or just flash using SP Tools (v.5.1424) (if you need scatterer file, ask me)
Actually, flashing stock recovery and locking boot loader does not give warranty back.
However you'll need stock recovery to flash lollipop update when arrived.
To get warranty back, you need to download complete stock ROM and flash it using SP Tools in firmware upgrade mode to reset the flash counter.
I'm rooted with frp unlocked and so on with oreo. I need to go all the way back to out of the box stock setup to download the latest updates. I'm on oreo and have a ton of reading but I need to be guided into a set of instructions to get this restore done.
Please help.
Thx!
Via magisk uninstaller, uninstall and your boot will be fine
Also, you can flash stock boot and recovery to be on full stock
Will this allow me to relock and do ota updates? Basically I need to be able to use the factory recovery partition incase of failure. Currently due to the unlocked phone the use of the recovery bricks the phone. And where can I get these stock recovery partitions at?
Doesn't matter if your BL is locked or unlocked. As long as you have stock recovery and stock boot, you will be able to install OTA
Can you e plain a bit more detail? Thx! How the process should go
What are the commands for stock boot and recovery images through the recovery screen. The white screen that shows bootloader and frp status.... And possible link to those specific files would be great.
Erecovery? How to reflash?